Orcocracy [comrade/them] @ Orcocracy @hexbear.net

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Yes we have both exaggerated. It’s between 6 and 9 years for the numbers published in 2021 (an odd time). It likely does not include early symptoms occurring during that period preventing or limiting the things retired people would have generally expected to have been able to do in decades past. Since its a range it reduces some of the problems in identifying the mythical average person, but not entirely. Of course a great many people will fall outside of that range and decline much earlier, with some doing so much later. Etc etc etc.

None of this really matters though. People should be able to retire earlier like generations past, and slightly less death or sickness happening at a certain age is not a good reason to change the retirement age. It’s just governments who want to keep or give out tax cuts looking for ways to reduce services.

That stat makes it even worse! The Danish government is shovelling its people from the workplace to the care home with no time for anything in between.

More bike lanes in Denmark = fewer kids getting run over by cars = higher average life expectancy since fewer people die when they are very young. Therefore, no pensions for 69 year olds. Amazing galaxy brain stuff.

The bit at the end about the retirement age being raised in France is also infuriating. It just “had to be pushed through parliament by President Emmanuel Macron without a vote”. It had to be! There was no alternative.

Doom is pretty retro for that setup. It could easily manage Half Life and Unreal, maybe even Quake 3.

Look at the second spine from the right - a feng shui ‘abundance’ book by someone with an extremely Anglo name.

The whole platform. It’s the 21st century’s reinvention of trash tv, but worse. At least in the days of broadcast tv everyone watched the same shitty broadcast so led to a sense of a collective experience and the slop was made by tv production workers in a union.

And if they give vague non-answers like that you press them for details. What was so cool about it, what were some of the things you learnt, etc.

Any form of assessment has this issue regarding whichever medium happens to be employed. That why you generally need a few different types of assessments and not just one big one.

Yeah that’s the idea, to get them to show their own thoughts about it.

Yeah, you can’t give students a done-at-home essay as an assessment any longer, that’s just asking for AI slop and setting the students up for failure. Students can’t be trusted to avoid the temptation of AI, even the good ones from time to time. Over the past couple of years I’ve had to completely rethink every assessment I give. Essays are useless now. In-class tests and exams are ok, but students struggle with these more than they did a few years ago as they are less practiced at thinking through the written word. In-class presentations work pretty well, if you have a few restrictions. Keeping the time limits short so they stay focused and do not use vague and verbose AI writing helps, limiting the amount of text in slides or number or slides or even just banning slides entirely can also help to reduce slop. But most importantly, have a lengthy question and answer period at the end. This is where the students will actually demonstrate their own understanding as they need to actually know the material themselves to get through even very simple questions. If a student only used AI to write a presentation script even “what did you think about the book?” is a tough question for them. Usually one of the students will try using AI but will very visibly crash and burn in front of the whole class during the Q&A. The public shaming that results usually serves as a good warning to the rest.

Even English isn’t English! It’s from all those French and German people who moved to England in the Middle Ages. Send ‘em back, I say.

Yeah, sure, I guess that is a “claim” that I am “advancing”. If you’re going to try and turn this into a weird Reddit-style debate that you can “win” then I’m not interested. If you are curious about how other systems outside of your own function, then you can go read about them.

So, which part of the US are you from?

I expect doctor’s visits to not have bills.

Those last three words, “in their billing”, is the real terrifying part. The AI is only making easier the bit of the job that shouldn’t need doing in the first place.

Also the Washington Post actually pays its writers.

Easter Monday is part of the Easter holiday in many places.

Considering YouTube live streams about games are usually filled with incels complaining about woke, I hope video game studios have a standard policy of ignoring them.

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It’s the Steam fans I worry about. Sometimes they act like Steam is some sort of utopian open source project when it’s just another corporate platform that wants to lock them in.